Also known as cloisonne enamel, it originated in the Yuan Dynasty, ancient Kyoto, and prevailed in the Ming Dynasty Jingtai years (1450 Year - 1456), mainly because of its glaze color blue (peacock blue and sapphire blue) dominated the ancient called cloisonne.

Cloisonne is a famous traditional handicraft in China has 600 years of history, which combines history, culture, art and unique traditional crafts in one, Gu Pu and elegant, exquisite luxury. It is famous with a unique national style and profound ethnic connotation. Cloisonne precious metal is gold, silver, filigree set, welding, Blue Point, bluing, polished, gold-plated ten refining process. Beijing Enamel Factory production of cloisonne enamel licensing its superior quality and strong cultural tastes renowned domestic and foreign markets, making it exquisite, superb, inherited the Ming and Qing dynasties excellent traditional skills, and it has been a greater development, the new form Jian Jie, modern and stylish new generation of cloisonne, leading the development trend and direction of national cloisonne.

Cloisonne is an important species in China's metal crafts. Cloisonne first use tires made of copper, followed by the division in the above painting process, and then copper.

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The bead adhesive on the copper pattern drawn out of a corresponding pattern, and then a different color pattern embedded in the enamel glaze, and finally after repeated sintering, polished gold-plated. Cloisonne both the use of bronze and porcelain technology, and integration into the traditional hand-painting and carving skills, called the master of Chinese traditional crafts. This copper enamel was founded in the Ming Dynasty Jingtai years, due to the start-up time of only blue, hence the name cloisonne. Modern Cloisonne has become a kind of craft name, rather than color.

Cloisonne and lacquer, jade, ivory is known as the four most famous Beijing arts and crafts, arts and crafts world, she is a shining pearl. Cloisonne its long history, elegant and sleek, vibrant colors, ornate and colorful patterns, the number of varieties shape, and exquisite luxury magnificent visual experience and all done by hand, the condensation of the wisdom of the creator arts and crafts are unique to Beijing. It is very suitable for home life as decorations and gifts for friends and family gifts and prizes and Ji Nianpin for recognition and reward.

Cloisonne historical allusions

Cloisonne is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient working people. In the historical changes after the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties dynasty, the industrious and talented craftsmen artists use their hands to create a brilliant cloisonne culture. They hammer using simple tools made of copper plate type tires, wire breaking manually pinch patterns into various different types of flowers, with a spatula to fill various colored glazes, the glaze by sintering fire good pinch wire copper tires, drive wheel rotates with foot and hand sand polished charcoal, in a large number of processes for the room and spread in the outskirts of Kyoto, made tires, filigree, blue point, polished, with a hard-working hands to create the Cloisonne splendid history and culture. Cloisonne artwork exclusively for the old aristocratic palace to enjoy, she is a symbol of power and status in the old royal shrine of the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace Royal Garden, visitors can also see the time left to the few cloisonne art treasures, today folk also spread some of the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty cloisonne treasures upon generations.

Cloisonne is a rich ethnic characteristics of Beijing arts and crafts.Why is this called cloisonne crafts? In folk have such a legend. It is not allowed to say it a dynasty, just know that the city of Beijing has built a palace. One night, a fire from the palace, filled with treasures of the throne room burnt to ashes. The emperor was furious, took the ladies, eunuchs leak children, some cudgel, and some into the cell door, and some were beheaded. The emperor Caesar enough gas children, they shouted to the gang, gave him sifting through the basket from the ashes inventory baby. He stood next to personally oversee. Suddenly, there came a eunuch holding the bottle, followed by a eunuch holding a small jug. The emperor saw, furrowed brows smoothed out once. what! This is what baby? How I've never seen it! He asked about close courtiers, also repeatedly shook his head. I saw this bottle and a small jug, colorful, Ying products shine. The emperor put it down, pass down immediately and vowed to mobilize capital craftsmen, in imitation March deadline, failing that, never Qingrao.

The emperor's decree about, which erupted in the capital rushed off Hong eighty-selling handcrafted workshop of the craftsmen. Everybody around two Keebler turn to turn to see for a long time, I saw this bottle is made of gold and silver as tires, tires outside wrapped in a layer of enamel, but also between the enamel gold wrapping. Such exquisite treasure is how to make out of it! Everybody fathom to fathom go, how also could not fathom what they were. Artisans can really gum tree, and had to plan their own idea, some with copper or iron Wei in a circle, pull the tire type; some round and round around the filigree on the tire type; but no matter how tinker with that tire type and filigree just can not stick together. As for how the brilliant glaze is sintered, but not touch a doorway.

The days passed, and everyone anxious sweating, stars, hearts oppressed thoroughly. One day, when there is an old craftsman frown, facing the bottles wrestling, his eyes fixed on the bottle when pondering, I watched, suddenly, that emit colorful bottles aura, spin up, the more the more rotation fast. Suddenly, the aura emerged wearing a emerald beads, wearing a colored shirt, foot clouds beautiful fairy. She cadence and said: "Aquarius flower honorable discharge, depends on skilled flowers planted, shall not be anxious white flowers do not open, without a butterfly difficult to gossip, suffering from flooding in stone, how can I stay too often in the spring . "After listening to that old craftsman fairy, then sometimes I do not understand what it meant, would like to ask, did not open the mouth, can not say out loud. Watch that sideways to dissolve a fairy aura was gone. He was very anxious, stride leg to recover, only to hear the "Crash" sound, hit the side of the bottle, put his cold sweats, opened his dim eyes, had just had a dream.

This dream of doing really strange, he rushed to call around to a few craftsmen, the dream encounter things to tell everyone to listen. Everybody listened to feel very strange, then, you made me a language to talk away. This said: "The other end of the two said, is a good chant can boast that after a few bottles What does it mean ah!?" A clever young man cut in and said: "the fairy said, 'not anxious white flowers do not open' obviously these words, we have to have is to make 'urgent white', what does this' white urgent 'Yes' Hearing this, the old craftsman suddenly: "!! Oh, is not referring to herbal' Baiji 'Yeah" "Yes, registration is you want, Baiji water a bubble, like with the adhesive, in the past, we will use it to stick things. why do we do it to gold on bond tire? give it a try. "another old craftsman said: "? there 'without difficulty to gossip butterfly', this is how mean it." "this is not meant to say that the colorful glaze vase, such as butterflies fly," a middle-aged craftsman mused, "could there like Li Lao Jun gossip smelting furnace with refining the elixir way glaze, and then sintered to the gold Yeah!" "Oh! that dream fairy, do not Lianshi the Sky Nvwaniangniang, apparitions pointing us, calls us put up gossip furnace smelting stone. "is the clever young artisans Rushing to say. "Ah, ah, is kinda mean." Old craftsman hand stroked his beard, nodded, "You think, ah, the palace that the fire is not put Majestic palace in the collection of all kinds of precious stones are seizing gold and silver together after it? perhaps this rare baby bottles is so burned out of it! "" And that flooding stone, it goes without saying that we asked sintering, have to like Jade carving, like the bottle after it was tempered will shine Yeah! "in this way, craftsmen nervously put up gossip furnace, picked up a stone and gold, silver iron tin powder into them.

After smelting seventy-seven forty-nine hour, the melting really came out crystal colorful glaze. Bletilla that the bead wire and firmly bonded together. Aquarius finally make out! From that point on, with skilled craftsmen spiritual heart, Beijing began an unprecedented gold and silver glaze bottles. However, at that time, no matter how many made, all wholly owned by the Royal Palace, so people will call it the "palace of art." Because this is the palace treasures out a big fire, some people call it the "Qi Bao burn." To the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qi Yu Daizong time, he was particularly fond of this craft, therefore edicts mass-produced, the level of technology to improve quickly. At that time, it is Jingtai (AD 1450-1456), the product is also mostly based peacock blue, so people put this craft called cloisonne. Later this title has been passed down. Qing Dynasty, Beijing's increasingly well-known in the international cloisonne, 1904 World's Fair held in Chicago, won the first prize. After the liberation, cloisonne in Wuzhou universal fame, love and praise by the people of all countries.

cloisonne production process

With the continuous development of cloisonne and the needs of the market, a number of special products, useful products, souvenirs and high, big, fine, sharp, high-quality cloisonne mass production, new varieties, new colors, new technology emerging in recent years Cloisonne industry appeared womb cloisonne, cloisonne silver tire, and Cloisonne enamel painting combining cloisonne, cloisonne mechanism, imitation Japanese cloisonne silver crystal blue, and combine a variety of Cloisonne.Especially multi-technology combined with cloisonne particularly prominent. This is a kind of cloisonne as the main body, and then combined with ivory, jade carving, wood carving, lacquer ware and silk inlay and other processes, due to the variety of unique combination of technology, materials set off each other, plus a lot of whole body and inlaid stones, so that works more novelty, exquisitely carved, whole body exudes jewels.

Design paper Release: Design FIG tire, wire work drawings, blueprints (blue color point draft): First, there FIG tire designer, silk workers drawings, blueprints (blue color point draft), conversion to the copy paper is issued to prepare a process application.

Type Production: The copper sheet cut in various shapes according to requirements of the drawings, and with a hammer tapping into various shapes copper body, and then the various parts adapter Shanghao flux, to become high temperature after soldering copper body vessel shape.

Filigree: tweezers squashed pinch fine copper wire, break it into various patterns of fine patterns, then dipped Baiji tire adhered copper, silver and solder powder on the sieve, the calcination temperature 900 degrees, the copper pattern firmly welded to the copper body.

Blue Point: After the carcass after the filigree step, then, after welding, pickling, live ping, n silk and other processes, before entering step blue point. Blue is the division point Yi enamel glaze prepared in advance, in accordance with the designated color pattern, with a spatula-like tool made of a copper hammer, a shovel to the enamel glaze decoration filled in the welded wire framework.

Bluing: is used to fill the entire carcass after the glaze, and then get the blast furnace temperature of about 800 deg.] C some minerals stone powder as the fuel firing, the glaze melts to a liquid solid sand, after cooling becomes fixed brilliant glaze on the carcass, in which case copper is less than the height of glaze, the glaze obtained reloading once, and then sintered, typically four to five times in succession, until the fill patterns relative to the filigree pattern level.

Polish: with grit, Huang Shi, charcoal three times the uneven glaze polished, at every injustice are subject to blow up the glaze after repeatedly polished, and finally with charcoal, copper blade will be no blue glaze The bottom line, port line Calibrating polished.

Gilt: The polished, burnished cloisonne pickling, decontamination, sand bright, gold plating solution into the bad, and then pass on the current gold after a few minutes they were firmly attached in the first part of the metal cloisonne. Rinse and then washed and dried after processing, a gorgeous eye-catching Cloisonne will come to the fore. A good gold-plated carved exquisitely carved hardwood bottom bracket matched with cloisonne, cloisonne show more elegant, dignified and beautiful pretty.